A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
The eyes of the portraits on the wall
Look at me, follow me,
Stare incessantly:
I take it their glance means nothing at all?
–Clearly, oh clearly! Nothing at all …
Out in the gardens by the lake
The sleeping peacocks suddenly wake;
Out in the gardens, moonlit and forlorn,
Each of them sounds his mournful horn:
Shrill peals that waver and crack and break.
What can have made the peacocks wake?

A few random poems:
- Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho
- Colloquy by Weldon Kees
- Light poem – John Milton poems
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word by William Cowper
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow poem – John Keats poems
- In Uncertainty To A Lady poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- What the Ghost of the Gambler Said by Vachel Lindsay
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope
- On The Cliffs Newport
- Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves by William Butler Yeats
- God’s Grandeur poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Арфа
- Владимир Высоцкий – Надпись на афише Смехову к 400-му спектаклю «Антимиры»
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.